Steven Yazzie (b. 1970 Newport Beach, California; lives and works in Phoenix Arizona) received and education with the United States Marine Corps, Phoenix College and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  His work has been exhibited at the National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY;  Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona; Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale Arizona; Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art and the Tucson Museum of Art in Tucson, Arizona.  Internationally Yazzie has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada; Valencia, Spain and the Czech Republic.

Yazzie has been a part of over numerous exhibitions nationally and is held in many private collections throughout the country.  He has received a number of regional and national grants, most notably the “Millennium Grant”, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through the National Endowment for the Arts

Yazzie is active with two collectives/projects, Postcommodity and YRGproject.

He is one of the founding members of Postcommodity, a contemporary American Indian arts collective. Postcommodity is an on going project who’s mission is to utilize collaborative, intertribal, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to experimenting with conceptual and aesthetic forms of contemporary American Indian expression.

He is one of the founding members of YRGproject, a photography based collaboration project designed to utilize a variety of collaborative, engaging, and relational methods as point of exploration in an improvised and sometimes staged environments.

While most of Yazzie’s work is painting,  he also works in sculpture, video, installation and mixed media.  His recent work addresses concerns of urbanism and man’s relationship to his environment in the Twenty-first century, particularly in the southwestern United States.

Born

1970        Newport Beach, California.  Lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona.


Education

2006        Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

1993-99   Phoenix College, Phoenix Arizona

1988-92   United States Marine Corp


Solo Exhibitions

2010  New Stories, Berlin Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

2009  New Works, Berlin Gallery, Phoenix AZ

2008  The West is the Best & The Tsosido, Palomar College, San Marcos California

2008  Strata: New Paintings, Berlin Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

2007  4x4 Motion Festival, Postcommodity, Prague, Czech Republic

2007  Intersections, Postcommodity, Slavonice, Czech Republic

2007  Draw Me A Picture, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2005  New Work, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2003  The Last Painting Show, Buckaroo Parish, Phoenix, AZ     


Selected Group Exhibitions from 2000 to the present

2010  UNRESERVED IN/SIGHT ART, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC, NY.

2009  World View Manipulation Therapy, Postcommodity, Phoenix, AZ

2009  Do You Remember When? Postcommodity ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

2009  Dead River Postcommodity”The Block Party” ASU Benefit,Phoenix,AZ

2009  Beyond Face Value, Heard Museum North, Scottsdale AZ

2009  Outsiders Within, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ

2009  Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World, AGO, Toronto, Canada

2009  The Repellent Eye, Postcommodity, Ice house, Phoenix AZ

2008  The Other Mainstream II, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

2008  Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World, NMAI, New York, NY

2007  Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2007  Intersections, Postcommodity, Slavonice, Czech Republic

2007  Hi ha alguna cosa de revolucionarien tot aco, Sala Parpallo, Valencia, Spain

2007  Drawing Outside the Lines, SMOCA, Scottsdale, AZ

2007  New Works, Berlin Gallery, Phoenix, A

2003-07  Contemporary Forum Auction, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2004-07   Kaos Theory, Legend City Studios,  Phoenix, AZ

2006  Saints and Sirens, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2006 DECK – Skatedeck Art Exhibit, The Phoenix, Icehouse, Phoenix, AZ

2005  Identity: Divided Transformations, Phoenix College, Phoenix, AZ

2005  Scapes, Credit Suisse First Boston, New York City, NY

2005 2004  Contemporary Forum Grant Winners exhibit, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ

2004  Shade Projects: Smithsonian Culture Fest Auction, Phoenix, AZ

2004  Smithsonian NMAI Exhibition, Manderin Oriental Hotel, Washington, D.C.

2004  Indian Market Show LewAllen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2004-07  Native Views, Artrain USA,  Intercontinental traveling exhibition.

2004  Respite Invitational - SHADE Projects, Phoenix, AZ

2004  Text, Tempe Public Library, Tempe, AZ

2003  Native Inspiration LewAllen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2003  War Show City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA

2003  Arizona Biennial Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

2003  Mimic of Calls, Central College of Arizona, Coolidge, AZ

2002  City of Tempe, U.S. Post Office, Tempe, AZ

2002  Exotic Art, Alwun, House Foundation, Phoenix, AZ

2001  Palette-able Art, Buckaroo Parish, Phoenix, AZ

2000  The Way It Is, Gallery of Contemporary and Indigenous Art (GOCAIA), Tucson, AZ


Residencies

2008  Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ (Pocha Nostra Residency)

2007  Center for the Future, Slavonice, Czech Republic

2006  Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine

2004  South Mountain High School, Phoenix, AZ. Guest Artist in residence

2002  Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ.  “Tradition”, Installed Phoenix Children’s Hospital

2002  Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM. 

2002  Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ. 

2000  Heard Museum, Artist-in-Residence Program


Awards/Grants

2009  Arizona Commission on the Arts “Project Grant” w/Postcommodity

2008  First Nations Composer Initiative Grant w/Postcommodity

2006  Professional Development Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ

2006  Scholarship & Travel Grant, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine.

2004  Contemporary Forum Materials Grant, Contemporary Forum, Phoenix, AZ

2002  Best of Show “Exotic Art 2002”, Alwun House Foundation, Phoenix, AZ

2000  National Endowment for the Arts(NEA) & Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Grant recipient,

         “Artists Communities: America Creates for the Millennium”, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ


Collections

2009  Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

2008  The Weithorn Collection

2007  Mayo Clinic

2006  E. Jungerman Collection

2005  Dream Warrior, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ.

2000  Fear of a Red Planet: Forced Removal & Relocation Heard Museum,Phoenix,AZ.


Publications

2007  Art Papers, Sep, Oct: Future Anterior

2007  Remix: New Modernites in a Post Indian World

2006  PHX Phoenix: 21st Century city.  Edward Booth Cliborne

2004  Native Views: Influences of Modern Culture

2003  Arizona Biennial catalog

contact: stevenyazzie@mac.com

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